Mars: A new core-crystallization regime

Science

Volumn 316, Issue 5829, 2007, Pages 1323-1325

  Stewart, Andrew J ^a   Schmidt, Max W ^a   Van Westrenen, Wim ^b   Liebske, Christian ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; NICKEL; SULFUR;

COOLING; CORE (PLANETARY); CRYSTALLIZATION; IRON; MARS; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; NICKEL; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; SOLIDIFICATION; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COOLING; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; ENERGY; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRAVITY; HEAT; LIQUID; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MELTING POINT; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUBILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; IRON; MARS; PRESSURE; SULFIDES; SULFUR; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 34249869309     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1140549     Document Type: Article

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